Tell Congress to Stop Funding Private Prisons

Across the country, detainees in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody face rampant abuses at private detention centers run by GEO Group and CoreCivic. Reports document overcrowding, rotten food, denial of medical treatment, and retaliatory solitary confinement for those who speak out.

At CoreCivic’s Trousdale Turner prison in Tennessee, at least five people have died in the past two years after mistreatment and medical neglect. The company just settled lawsuits over these preventable deaths, admitting no wrongdoing even as grieving families continue to demand justice. Inside these facilities, people who should receive care are instead subjected to violence, understaffing, and squalid conditions — all while CoreCivic turns a profit.

Meanwhile, private prison corporations have seen their profits surge, with GEO Group and CoreCivic raking in hundreds of millions even as detainees suffer. Their business model depends on mass incarceration and human misery. As long as taxpayer dollars are funneled into these contracts, the abuses will continue.

That’s why we are calling on members of the Appropriations and Judiciary Committees to stop renewing contracts with GEO Group and CoreCivic and shift funding to humane, community-based alternatives.

Public pressure works: courts have already forced accountability, and watchdogs have exposed corruption. But only an outraged public demanding change can push Congress to cut off this stream of money and shut down the profiteers.

Time is short. Appropriations markups begin in September 2025. That’s the moment lawmakers decide whether billions more will flow into abusive detention contracts — or whether we finally say enough. Every day of delay risks more lives, more suffering, and more families torn apart.

Add your name today. Tell Congress to stop funding private detention profiteering and end the abuse before it’s too late.